Re:Inside Andy Rubin's Quest to Create an OS for Everything
by dingo_bat on Friday July 28, 2017 @09:13PM
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AFAIK Android was already under development but arrival of iPhone caused it to be completely modified before release.
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Re:Inside Andy Rubin's Quest to Create an OS for Everything
by cel1ne on Saturday July 29, 2017 @02:22AM
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It was originally an OS for cameras. It's a pain to develop on. I believe they used an automated tool to convert a C-codebase to Java (judging from method name, usage of bit-fields instead of enums etc.)